Quotes from Julian of Norwich

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.

God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

Wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all-thing that is done, it is well-done: for our Lord God doeth all.

God is nearer to us than our own spirit

For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.

Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.